False Witness

False witness is the most obvious and unambiguous form of lying, in which someone else is harmed by your gossip, insinuations, or testimony. False witness is a supremely heinous crime.

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9 SCRIPTURE SECTIONS on the theme of False Witness

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72 SCRIPTURES on the theme of False Witness

Exodus 20:16 😇, never bear false testimony [against your] fellow [man].
note: Damaging others with falsehood is prohibited by commandments 8 & 9. However, you can give incorrect information in situations where no one else is damaged, particularly when you are being interrogated by people seeking to harm you. Be shrewd as a serpent, and harmless as a dove.
Deuteronomy 5:20 😇, never bear false witness against your neighbor.
note: This is different from ‘Don't lie.’
Mark 14:56 Many [liars] bear false witness against YahShua. But their testimonies conflict with each other, 😇.
note: The lies don't add up. The false witnesses cancel each other out.
Proverbs 25:18 A maul, a sword, a sharp arrow, is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
Amos 7:10 [Then YHVH shows me that] AmaziYah {YAH's-Alertness}, the [corrupt] priest of Beth-El [the so-called ‘house-of-god’] keeps sending [accusations] to [evil] Jeroboam {Nation-Wrangler} king of [north] Israel. [The lying religionist] claims, “Amos conspires against you in the very heart of the house of Israel! The land is not able to bear Amos’ [seditious] lies!
note: ’Amos is hatching an evil assassination conspiracy against you right here on your very doorstep! What Amos is saying is intolerable. It will lead to rebellion all across the land. His speeches will destroy the country. The prophet must be silenced.’
Matthew 27:13 Then Pilate asks YahShua, “Don't you hear that long list of accusations the [religionists] are throwing at you?”
Mark 14:57 Finally, some [corrupt] men stand up to falsely testify against YahShua.
Luke 23:2 There the religionists launch into accusing YahShua [to the tax-chief]. They say, “We found this fellow [YahShua] subverting the nation. [He] forbids [everyone] to pay taxes to Caesar. [He] says that he himself is [the] Messiah, a King.”
Exodus 23:1 [YAH continues], “😇, never spread a false rumor. Never join hands with anyone wicked. Never be an unrighteous witness.
note: Don't lie, but also, don't go around telling people that American men walked on the moon in the 1960's, or that dinosaurs roamed the earth 65 million years ago. You don't know those assertions to be true. You weren't there. You just saw some video!
Exodus 23:2 😇, never [turn away from righteousness to] follow the crowd into doing wrong. Never allow the popular view to drag you down into saying things that [could] pervert justice.
note: Never spread worldly propaganda. If you didn't witness an event firsthand with your OWN eyes and ears, you don't know what happened. For instance, you don't know that Arabs flew passenger planes into the world trade towers in New York in 2001.
1st Kings 21:10 Then set two men ([worthless] sons of Belial {The-Devil}) before [Fruit-Man]. [Pay them to] bear [false] witness against him by saying, ‘You cursed Elohim and the king.’ Then carry [Fruit-Man] outside. Stone him to death.”
Deuteronomy 19:21 Never seek to shelter [a false witness from rightful payback, 😇]. Let [the avengers take] life [from those who would take innocent] lives: eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”
note: The avengers don't have to take revenge. Christians can never take revenge. But you have to let the avenger take revenge if they decide to. In Hebrew Law, the state can't interfere with justified local vigilante action. [Don't try this in the N.W.O. — it won't work. The New World Order assigns all of the peoples' vengeance rights to the state.]
Vigilante |ˌvijəˈlantē|:
a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.
Deuteronomy 19:19 [If the witness lied,] then you, 😇, [can] do to him whatever damage he schemed to do his brother [human]. That's how you eradicate evil from your [community].
note: This verse doesn't demand that disciples of Christ participate in violent retribution. The verse allows avengers to punish false witnesses, if the avenger so chooses, which, human nature being what it is, the avenger probably will.
Deuteronomy 19:18 The judges must do a diligent investigation. [They must] seek to reveal whether the witness is a false claimant who's testifying maliciously against his brother.
note: The word "false" implies cheating and scamming, that is, doing damage to another. It does not necessarily include merely randomizing trivial, inconsequential information to protect your privacy.
Acts 6:11 Then, 😇, [these religionists] bribe [false-witnesses], who lie: “We heard Stephen speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against [YHVH] the Eloah.”
Matthew 26:60 Many false witnesses [spout nonsense and hearsay to get reward money]. Yet [the religionite murder conspirators] fail to find one [credible witness against YahShua]. At last, however, 2 [less ridiculous] false witnesses show up, 😇.
Proverbs 19:9 [YAH] punishes [every] false witness, 😇. Start a fire with lies, and you die.
Mark 14:55 [Judea's] chief priests and [their] whole [illegal religious] council hunt for [perjured, bribed] ‘witnesses’ who'll accuse YahShua of a death-penalty offense. But no one can provide [credible] evidence against YahShua.
Mark 14:59 But even then the [false witnesses] can't get their [lying] stories to match, 😇!
Genesis 39:14 [So the Captain's wife] calls to the men of her house. [She puts on her best innocent girl face.] Then, 😇, she addresses the men, crying, “Look! [My beloved husband the Captain] imported a [lowdown] Hebrew into our [fine Egyptian] estate to make fools out of us! [Joseph] invaded my [bedroom] to [rape] me. But I screamed at the top of my lungs!
John 8:13 So the [payroll-preacher] Pharisees argue with YahShua, “You’re testifying in your own [defense. Your] self-testimony is not [legally] valid.”
note: Correct legal principle.
Acts 18:13 [The Jews lie], “This fellow [Paul] persuades men to worship Elohim in [ways that] violate the law.”
note: Scoffers lie to the Romans, claiming that we Hebrews don't get licenses required by Law; that we evade lawful taxes, etc. The same scoffers lie to the Jews, saying that we Christians don't guard the Law of Moses. All lies.
Acts 21:28 The Jews shout [lies], “Men of Israel, help [us kill this heretic! This is the terrorist Paul,] the [dangerous] man who teaches all men every where [to fight] against the people [of Israel], and the [Mosaic] law, and this [Temple]! Paul even brought Greeks into the temple. He defiled this holy [sanctuary]!”
Acts 24:5 For we have found this man (Paul) a pestilent [terrorist]. He stirs up riots among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the [dangerous, rebellious] Nazarene cult.
note: A terr-ur-ist!
1st Peter 3:16 [Yes, the world and the false churches] malign you, 😇. They murder your reputation. [They slanderously] label you ‘criminal.’ [They frame you as a heretic, fanatic, drug-addict, murderer, traitor, tax-evader, fraudster, terrorist and/or pedophile]. They falsely accuse you, 😇, [even though you] exemplify good behavior as a part of the body of the Messiah. But [don't worry. Just] keep your conscience clear. [YAH] soon comes to put those [liars] to shame.
Genesis 39:16 The [lying slut] locks away Joseph's robe [as incriminating evidence]. Then Joseph's slave-master, [the Captain] comes home, 😇.
note: A cloak covered the sins of Joseph's brothers. And the cloak covers the slut's sin.
Genesis 39:17 The General's wife tells him all her [devilish lies:] She cries, “That Hebrew servant (you imported into our home) broke into my [bedroom] to shame me!
Genesis 39:20 So Joseph's master grabs Joseph {Increaser} and throws him in the prison where the king's prisoners [rot,] bound [in chains. Time passes, 😇.] Joseph ages in prison.
Deuteronomy 19:20 Those [false witnesses] who remain will hear about [the reciprocal punishment]. [They'll] be afraid [to harm others by lying]. [So people] will no longer commit such wickedness among you, 😇.
2nd Samuel 13:30 Later, while the [princes flee] down the road, [a misguided informant runs into king] David's [throne room. The informant blurts], “AbShalom {Father-of-Peace} murdered all king [David's] sons! Not one of [our princes] survives!”
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:51 Then DaniEl says to the [guards], “Take these two [lying judges] far away from this council and far from each other. I'll cross-examine them [individually].”
Genesis 39:18 But when I shouted and screamed, [the pervert] abandoned his cloak with me, and fled outside.”
Genesis 39:19 The Captain boils over with fury as he listens to his wife hiss out [snake-lies,] crying, “Your 2nd-in-command tried to rape me!”
Genesis 39:15 And when Joseph {Increaser} heard me screaming [‘rape!’], he abandoned his cloak with me and fled outside.”
Deuteronomy 19:16 [You, 😇, can punish any] malicious witness who comes forward and accuses someone of a crime.
Acts 25:7 Paul enters [the courtroom in chains]. The [rogue] Jews who had rushed down from Jerusalem stand surrounding Paul. They throw many serious charges against him. But they can't prove any of their [lies].
NehemiYAH 6:7 And you've also appointed prophets to herald your [kingship] at Jerusalem, shouting, ‘There's a king in Judea!’ So [I'm] going to report you and [your boasts] to the Emperor! So come quick. Let's negotiate together. [Bribe me to keep quiet.]”
Matthew 26:61 Both liars lie. They say, “This fellow [YahShua] bragged, ‘I'm able to destroy the Temple of [YHVH] the Eloah, and rebuild it in 3 days.’”
Psalms 35:21 [Politicians] open their mouth[s] [like black holes devouring] me. [They sneer], “Our own eyes saw you [commit] your [crimes]!”
Proverbs 14:5 A faithful witness won't lie, 😇. A false witness blurts fiction.
note: The witness whose story changes is the liar.
NehemiYAH 6:8 So I immediately send [my reply] to the [lying ‘Governor’]. I say, “Nothing like you claim has happened. You're making it all up out of your head.”
Acts 25:24 [Porky] Festus [snorts], “King Agrippa, and all men here present with us: You see this man [Paul]. The whole Jewish multitude [continually] plead with me about him. Both at Jerusalem, and also here, they pray that [Paul] not be allowed to live [another moment].
Genesis 12:19 —Why did you ‘lie,’ saying, ‘Sarai is my sister?’ [I was about to] take her as my queen! Here's your wife! Take her now! [Get out of Egypt!]”
note: Abram stated half of the truth: Sarai was Abram's half-sister.
2nd John 1:7 For many deceivers keep entering the world, 😇. [These] deluders refuse to acknowledge that YahShua, YAH's Messiah, came [to earth] in the flesh. Such [unbelievers] are tricksters, the anti-Messiah[s].
note: Muslims perpetuate Muhammad's strange twist on this delusion: the lie that Yahshua the Messiah didn't die, and therefore was never resurrected.
Acts 24:13 Neither can [my accusers] prove the [charges] of which they now accuse me.
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:43 —You know that these [judges] have borne false witness against me. Look! [The people are picking up rocks to stone me to] death! Yet I never did anything like the [accusations] these ‘judges’ have maliciously invented against me!”
Acts 24:7 But [Roman] Colonel Lysias stormed down on us with great violence. [His thugs] snatched [Paul] away out of our hands.
note: Lie. Lysias did no violence.
Proverbs 12:17 😇, the truth-teller presents unswerving testimony, while a false witness proliferates deceit.
note: The liar is the guy whose story changes.
Acts 24:6 [Paul] even tried to desecrate [Jerusalem's] temple. So we seized him. We would have judged [him] according to our law.
Acts 16:21 [These Jews] teach customs unlawful for us Roman [subjects] to accept or practice!”
note: Not true: nothing we Hebrews teach is against any Law. However, our way of life stands foreign to the world's commercial statutes which they label ‘laws.’ So when you teach people in the world-system to follow YHVH's Word, they accuse you of being an unpatriotic law-breaker. The accusers who shout loudest against you are people who make money from false religion.
Mark 14:58 They lie, “We heard YahShua say, ‘I come to destroy [Jerusalem's] temple. [It's a toy] made by [human] hands. Then, within 3 days, I build a new temple made without hands.’”
Psalms 27:12 Never surrender me to the schemes of my haters. False witnesses keep rising up, breathing out violence against me.
note: Follow YHVH, and even your friends and family will make up horrible lies about you.
Proverbs 26:2 Like a wandering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse comes [home to roost, 😇].
note: Don't sweat what people say about you. And don't say anything bad about someone else, especially if it's not true.
Proverbs 21:28 A false witness perishes, 😇. The man who intelligently listens speaks for eternity.
note: A true statement never changes. It stays true forever. Liars change their stories.
Proverbs 24:28 Never be a witness against your neighbor without cause, 😇. Never deceive [anyone] with your lips.
Acts 21:38 —Aren't you that Egyptian who started an [anti-Roman] revolt and led 4000 terrorists out into the desert a while back?”
note: No.
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:61 The [crowd] rises against the two [perverted] elders, because DaniEl {El-Judges} convicted them of false witness by their own mouth[s], 😇!
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:58 So now tell me, under what tree did you see [Susanna {Lily} and her young lover fornicating] together? [The 2nd false witness] lies, “Under an elm tree.”
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:49 Return to the place of judgment! Those [elders] have borne false witness against [Susanna].”
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:28 So the next day, the people assemble around Suzanna's [furious] husband JAHoacim. The two [black-robed] elders strut in through the crowd. The [judges] spout mischievous lies against Susanna {Lily}, [eager] to put her to death.
Wisdom of Solomon 1:11 So beware of [secret] whispering. [Gossip] is unprofitable. Restrain your tongue from backbiting. There is no word so secret, that it will [not come to something]. The mouth that [bears false witness] slays the soul.
note: belieth
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:36 Then the elders lie, “As we walked in the garden alone, this woman came in with two maids. She shut the garden doors. Then she sent the maids away.
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:37 Then a young man ran out from hiding in the bushes. He lay with Susanna {Lily}!
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:38 Then we [judges,] standing in the corner of the garden, saw this wickedness. So we ran to [the adulteress and her young stud].
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:26 The servants of the house hear [Suzanna] crying in the garden, [along with the judges screaming: “Fornicator! Stone her!”] The [servants] rush in at the private [shower] door to see what's happening to Suzanna.
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:54 Now then, if you really saw [Susanna {Lily} her young buck doing the dirty deed,] tell me, under what tree did you see [them] fornicating together?” [The 1st false witness] answers, “Under a Mastic {Gum} tree.”
Proverbs 6:19 [And YAH hates] a false witness who speaks lies, and [anyone] who plants discord among brothers, 😇.
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:39 And when we saw [Susanna and her lover] together [in carnal embrace,] we [grabbed the man. But we] couldn't hold the stud. He proved stronger than we. That [fornicator] opened the [garden] door, and leaped out!
note: Just like the ‘woman caught in adultery.’ With no man, there is no case.
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:40 So we arrested this [adulterous] woman. We demanded she tell us who the young [fornicating] man was. But [the brazen hussy] refused tell us. These things we do testify.”
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:27 The elders declare their [false accusation]. The servants [cry and howl,] greatly ashamed. For no one ever even rumored that Susanna {Lily} [might be an adulteress, 😇].
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:59 Then DaniEl {El-Judges} says to [the rapist-liar], “Good. You have also lied against your own head. The angel of Elohim waits with the sword to cut you in two, to destroy you.”
Susanna vs. The Elders 1:25 One [judge] runs and opens the garden door.

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